The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Joy is not the absence of darkness. Joy is confidence that the darkness will lift.

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Singing is easy. The proof is always in the living.

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

I've also never written anything really in LA.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.